ANCIENT ROME

Topics covered include geography, Romulus and Remus, early Roman monarchy; gods and goddesses, SPQR, the Twelve Tables, daily life in the Roman Republic, patricians and plebs, government under the Republic, the Roman Legion, Roman expansion, roads and aqueducts, the Punic Wars, Julius Caesar, daily life in the Roman Empire, Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius, Roman emperors, and the fall of Rome.